Re: Email address problem?

SteveT wrote:
Today I recieved a spam message from some entity with exactly the
same email adress as myself. Should I be worried? What to do?

No.

Nothing. Except maybe reconsider your spam filtering.

Thanks for that. Just one thing funny about it though. My ISP (BT)
does the spam filtering, so a message from "joe.bloggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
slipped through to me despite the fact I am "Joe.Bloggs".


Its not as simple as that I'm afraid.

I have a btinternet.com address. But, I send my email through a different
gateway (choice of three, my ISP Demon and two mail domains I own).
Therefore, its not unknown for me to send email to a mailing list,
originating at Demon, going via Yahoo or Google, and coming back to my
btinterent.com email address. The message will have "from" and "reply to"
fields containing my btinternet address as the sender.

Or I might use a web portal to compose a message.

The above is completely legitimate use. So a simple block on "you didn't
send it via your own ISP" doesn't work.




Reality is that there are probably lots of spam items with your email
address as sender. Some will break through the spam filter. Many will not.
Its been going on for at least a decade.


- Nigel (ex BT and btinternet design/development )



--
Nigel Cliffe,
Webmaster at http://www.2mm.org.uk/


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